Picker



March 29,1949. B. CZEKALSIKII 2,465,852

. PICKER Filed NOV. 14, 1946 f /5 ZJMW I J Bernard Uza,?czZ57di L ZZW/SLM W Patented Mar. 29, 1949 UNITED STATES 'ATENT OFFICE 1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to pickers for looms.

An object of this invention is to provide an improved picker which is so designed as to reduce the wear on the picker stick.

Another object of this invention is to provide a fibrous picker which is built up of vulcanized together fibrous material, and the picker also including oppositely disposed wear lugs which may either be formed of the same material as the body of the picker, or may be formed of different material, such as wood, composition or the like. The wear lugs extend through the slot in the picker and form increased wear surfaces for engagement with the picker stick so that the latter will not have a groove formed therein from contact with an end of the slot in the picker.

A further object of this invention is to provide a picker having wear blocks or lugs in the ends of the slots which will reduce Wear on the picker stick and which may also be replaced when worn, thereby eliminating replacement of the entire picker.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in the arrangement, combination and details of construction disclosed in the drawings and specification, and then more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a detail plan View, partly broken aWay and in section, of a picker for the loom constructed according to an embodiment of this invention,

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2--2 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 33 of Figure 1,

Figure 4 is a detail end elevation of the picker.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral l designates generally a picker which is adapted to operate a shuttle moving horizontally across the lay of a loom. The picker Ill comprises a relatively thick flat body H which may be made of vulcanized layers of fabric or the like, and the body II has a head 52 extending therefrom which is round in transverse section and has a length substantially less than the width of the body H, as shown in Figure l.

The impact head 12 is adapted to slide over the surface of the lay for engagement with the pointed nose of the shuttle so as to throw the shuttle across the lay upon rocking of the picker stick I3 shown in Figure 2. The body II of the picker is formed with a rectangular opening 14 through which the upper end of the picker stick I3 is adapted to loosely extend. The picker I!) also has extending from the inner edge of the body II a guide sleeve l5 which is adapted to loosely engage about a guide rod l4 carried by the loom.

In order to provide a means whereby the body II will not be unduly or quickly worn by rocking of the picker stick l3, or the picker stick l3 will not have worn channels formed therein where the stick l3 engages the forward and rear edges of the opening M, I have provided a pair of lug members I6 and I1. These lug members I 6 and H are of like construction and are substantially longer than the thickness of the body H, as shown in Figure 3.

Each lug member is formed with an outwardly opening slot I8 within which the connecting portion IQ of the body II which connects the body II with the sleeve [5 is adapted to engage. The lug is adapted to be cemented or otherwise firmly secured to the connecting member I9. A small or relatively thin portion 20 of the lug extends across the inner side of the connecting member I9 and extends into the adjacent end portion of the slot M so that the confronting edge of the stick I3 will contact entirel with the confronting surface of the lug. This lug, as shown in Figure 3, is formed with a longitudinally curved inner side 2| so as to provide a relatively long contacting surface between the lug and the adjacent edge of the picker stick. These lugs l6 and I! may be formed of any suitable material such as wood, leather or relatively stiff vulcanized fabric.

By providing the lugs l6 and I! as herein disclosed, when the lugs become worn they may be readily replaced, thereby eliminating the necessity of replacing the entire picker when the contacting portion between the picker and the picker stick becomes unduly worn as is the present practice with known pickers.

In the use of this picker, the device is inserted over the top of the picker stick with the impact head in a position for engagement with the shuttle. As the stick I3 is rocked inwardly the inner edge of the stick will engage the inner edge of one of the lugs, such as lug IS in Figure 3. By providing the longitudinally curved inner surface 2| on the lug there will be provided a long wear surface of rounded configuration for contact with the adjacent edge of the picker stick so that the picker stick will not wear as quickly as is the case with present pickers.

I do not mean to confine myself to the exact details of construction herein disclosed, but claim all variations falling within the purview of the appended claim.

What I claim is:

A loom picker comprising a flat body, a shuttle engaging head extending from one edge of said body, a guide sleeve extending from the other edge of said body, said body having an elongated opening adjacent to and parallel with said sleeve, and a pairof, opposed elongated wear lugs intersecting and-extending laterally from the ends of said opening on the opposite sides of said body, each wear lug formed with an outwardly opening slot intermediate the length thereof within which the adjacent portion of said body is adapted to be engaged, said slot having a depth such that the outer edge of said lug-will be flush with the end of said body -wherebymsaid lug will be braced against tilting, said wear lugs being formed with outwardly curved divergent facing sides on opposite sides of said body for engagement with the picker stick.

BERNARD CZEKALSKI.

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